(November 19, 2022 at 9:02 am)arewethereyet Wrote: It's interesting to me how hard a person defends 'their' version of Christianity.
If the Bible was really the be-all, end-all there wouldn't be dozens (or hundreds, or thousands) of different flavors of Christian belief.
Either the Bible IS the answer to everything...the one and only answer...or it isn't. Taking into account the numerous interpretations simply shows how people pick and choose the 'important' parts. It's constantly twisted into what people want it to say.
Yes, this is one of my biggest problems with it too, and as I see it, the more willing you are to go down the allegorical/metaphorical route of interpreting it, the greater this problem becomes, almost exponentially.
